Wabash at Purdue

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  The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., October 29, 1906, page 7

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  LITTLE GIANTS” TRIM PURDUE For the First Time in the History of the Two Schools. BIG ALUMNI GO TO SEE GAs { The Brilliant Offence and Stubborn Defence o. Wabash a Sur prise to Spectators. The Wabash college football team proved it’s class Saturday when it sue ceeded in defeating the Purdue uni versity team by the score of II to 0. The students of the Indian coach Cayou, had learned their lessons we’ll and they showed such brilliance ana versatility in their offense and such stubbornness in their defense that they played the boilermakers off their feet and for the first time in the history of the two schools, proudly compelled the lowering of the old gold and black of the big Lafayette school. Coach Cayou seems to come in for | big share of the glory. for it is believed that it was his early develop ment of the possibilities of the new rules that brought his team the vic | tory. Whatever may have been the cause, the striped Jerseys of the Wa | bash players flashed everywhere and the bewildering perplexity of their play literally swept the spectators off their feet. Those who saw the game realize | that no green team ever can beat such a system of accurate passing and kick | termination as Wabash displayed The field was covered with puddles of water and it is not known to what | extent this interfered with the fast | work of the Charlottesville players, but Coach Cayou Is the authority for | the opinion that 1t would have been possible to secure at least one more touchdown if he had thought 1t advisable to force the playing of the men during the whole game The only way that Purdue seemed to be able to gain consistently was OF line pIunges. but even then the brill liant work of Long was not sufficient to overcome the handicap of that big ten yards one of the noticeable things about the game was the exceeding friendliness Of the players of the opposing teams and this spirit of friedlines. was carried to the bleachers where the rooters on both sides eheered the play: of the members of the opposing team as though they were their own play , ers Among the 5000 people who saw the game were some of the oldes alumni of the two schools In tn, Wabash crowd was f r. Brown. tn, state commander of the G. A R, wht graduated in 1858. and Congressman ; Charles Lands. In the game it was signifean ! fact that on each Wabash kickoff. tn, ; Purdue man who got the bali was nail 2 ed in his tracks. while when Purdu r kicked off to wabash the searle players made gains of from FIVE t : twenty yards Both of Wabash’s touchdowns wer $ made In the first half and the stella T work of Miller. Sohl and Carver. III j scarlet backs. was the remarkabI r thing about the game. The forwar b pass was used repeatedly with q hig y average Of gains and seems to hav r been thoroughly developed by the In 4 | dian coach. b The last half ended with Wabas n apparently determined to make an 5 other touchdown and with the ball i Z Purdues territory, but the whistl

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Purdue leads 16–⁠8–⁠2 in 26 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.